اِصرِف فُؤادَكَ يا عَبّاسُ مُلتَفِتاً

عَنها وَإِلا فَمُت مِن حُبِّها كَمَدا

Turn your heart away, O Abbas, looking back

Or else you will die of love for her, perished

إِنّي لَأَمنَحُ وُدّي كُلَّ ذي ثِقَةٍ

صِرفاً وَأَحفَظُهُ إِن غابَ أَو شَهِدا

Indeed, I grant my love to all who are faithful

Attentively, and preserve it if they are absent or present

عَصَيتُ فيها عِباد اللَهُ كُلَّهُمُ

مَن لامَني سَفَهاً أَو لامَني رَشَدا

I disobeyed, in her, all of God's servants

Whoever blamed me for ignorance or blamed me for wisdom

لَم يُفقَدَ الوُدُّ مِن قَلبي لِمَفقَدِها

لَكِنَّ قَلبي غَداةَ البَينِ قَد فُقِدا

Love was not lost from my heart when she was lost

But my heart the next morning was lost

فيمَ البُكاءُ عَلى ما فاتَ وَاِنجَرَدَت

بِهِ اللَيالي مَعَ الأَيّامَ فَاِنجَرَدا

Why weep for what is past and the nights are gone

With the days, so be gone too

لَو أَنَّها مِن وَراءِ الرومِ في بَلَدٍ

ما كُنتُ أَسكُنُ إِلا ذَلِكَ البَلَدا

If she were beyond Rome in a country

I would dwell in no other place but that land

يا مَن شَكا شَوقَهُ مِن طولِ غَيبَتِهِ

اِصبِر لَعَلَّكَ أَن تَلقى الحَبيبَ غَدا

O you who complained of longing from the length of his absence

Be patient, perhaps you will meet the beloved tomorrow

لَن يَستَطيعَ الفَتى كِتمانَ خُلَّتِهِ

حَتّى يُحَدِّثَ عَنها أَينَما قَعَدا

The young man will not be able to conceal his secret

Until he speaks of it wherever he sits

قَد كُنتُ أَكتُمُ ما أَلقى وَأَستُرُهُ

جُهدي فَأَزهَقَ شَوقي الصَبرَ وَالجَلَدا

I used to conceal what I encountered and hide it

My utmost effort, so my patience and composure expired

حَتّى أَبانَ الهَوى ما كانَ يَستُرُهُ

ضَنّي بِها وَأَبادَ الروحَ وَالجَسَدا

Until love revealed what it used to conceal

It strained me, and destroyed the soul and body

إِنّي وَجَدتُ الهَوى في الصَدرِ إِن رَكَدا

كَالنارِ أَو فاقَ حَرَّ النارِ مُتَّقِدا

Indeed, I found love in the heart, whether still

Like fire, or exceeding the heat of flaming fire

النارُ تُطفا بِبَرَدِ الماءِ إِن مُزِجَت

وَلَو مَزَجتَ الهَوى بِالماءِ ما بَرَدا

Fire is extinguished by the coolness of water if mixed

And if you mixed love with water, it would not cool

هِيَ المُنى لِيَ أَهواها وَأَطلُبُها

وَسائِرُ الناسِ يَهوى المالَ وَالوَلَدا

She is my wish, I love her and seek her

While other people desire money and children

إِذا رَقَدتُ دَنَت مِن بُعدِها فَإِذا

أَصبَحتُ أَصبَحَ مِنها القُربُ قَد بَعُدا

When I sleep, she comes to me from afar, but when

I wake, the nearness to her has grown far